Grind is My Ninja Way

With a thought, Seimei closed the panel and was about to use the Reflecting Heart Technique to break through the final bottleneck and awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.

But as soon as he raised his hands, he stopped.

Although his past experiences and memories told him that awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan wouldn't cause any unusual phenomena,

But...

Just in case, Seimei decided to leave the Kogatani Village stronghold and find another more secluded place before taking this final step.

Coincidentally, he knew of a good spot nearby, perfect for hiding.

Deciding to act immediately, Seimei didn't even say goodbye to the others and quietly left the Kogatani Village stronghold.

After traveling for several miles, Seimei arrived at a mountain stream.

This place was called Flying Stone Ravine. It was remote, surrounded by rugged rocks, and there were no valuable targets nearby.

Therefore, whether it was Iwa ninjas, Konoha ninjas, or ninjas from other villages, no one would come here without a reason.

The reason he knew this place was that he had passed by it once when he was with the team raiding the Iwa logistics transit point.

It could be said that this was an excellent hiding spot.

Gathering chakra on the soles of his feet, Seimei stepped on the rock wall and quickly ran towards the depths of the ravine.

A moment later, the faint sound of flowing water came from below.

Seimei looked down and saw a stream flowing gently. Occasionally, it was blocked by rocks, making a "ding-dong, ding-dong" sound.

This sound entered his ears, making Seimei feel serene, and the slight excitement in his heart due to the upcoming awakening of the Mangekyo Sharingan gradually calmed down.

Seimei flashed to the stream's edge, glanced around, and muttered, "This place is about right..."

With that, he found a boulder, waved his hand to clean it with a burst of Wind Release chakra, and then sat down cross-legged on it.

With the previous buffer, he was no longer in a hurry. He simply closed his eyes, relaxed his mind, and tried his best to completely calm down.

...

Time passed by.

Half an hour later.

After his mind was completely calm and his state reached its peak, Seimei suddenly opened his eyes. Then, he raised his hands, quickly formed hand seals, and used the Reflecting Heart Technique.

Although it had been a long time since he had used this technique, thanks to the "once mastered, always mastered" characteristic of the proficiency panel, his movements were not rusty at all.

In an instant, the lv7 Reflecting Heart Technique was activated by him.

Immediately, a special chakra condensed in his mind, then surged into his eyes, invading his optic nerves.

Everything was exactly the same as when he was increasing the proficiency of his Sharingan before. Seimei didn't feel anything special.

However, this wasn't a good thing because everything being normal meant that his Sharingan hadn't undergone the expected evolution.

Time passed by, and the special chakra in his mind dwindled. Seimei's heart gradually sank.

Just when he thought that relying solely on the Reflecting Heart Technique couldn't make his Sharingan complete the final transformation, a sudden change occurred.

When the last trace of special chakra flowed into his eyes, his eyes instantly started to change drastically, as if a switch had been flipped.

An extremely strong suction force came from his eyes, continuously drawing the chakra from his body into them.

"Ugh~"

Seimei covered his eyes and let out a painful groan.

Drops of blood flowed out from between his fingers, soon staining the back of his hand red.

Seimei was very glad that he had left the Kogatani Village stronghold. Otherwise, with the chakra fluctuations erupting from his body now, it would definitely attract others' attention.

He really hadn't expected that awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan would cause such a big commotion.

In his memory, both Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Sasuke seemed to have accomplished it easily.

'Perhaps... this is the price of defying fate...'

Seimei thought to himself.

Originally, this body of his didn't have the aptitude to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.

In fact, let alone the Mangekyo Sharingan, if Seimei hadn't transmigrated, he might not even have been able to awaken a single tomoe Sharingan.

Therefore, what he was doing now, to some extent, was equivalent to 'defying fate.' It was normal for his situation to be different from others.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind. Seimei endured the pain and carefully felt the changes in his Sharingan.

No sooner had he sensed it than he was startled.

At this moment, his two Sharingan were like two bottomless pits, madly devouring the chakra in his body.

However, Seimei couldn't feel where this chakra was going.

Vaguely, he only felt that something deeper within his body had changed, perhaps his genes or something else.

In any case, the changes in these things made his Sharingan start to evolve, gradually approaching the higher level of Mangekyo Sharingan.

At the same time, his mental power also began to surge, and an even stronger sense of oppression on his body than before came.

Seimei couldn't help but let out another muffled groan, and more blood flowed out from his eyes, dripping onto the ground.

If he couldn't clearly feel his Sharingan evolving, Seimei would have thought there was something wrong with him.

...

Time passed by.

In the blink of an eye, three minutes had passed.

The pain began to subside, and Seimei slightly relaxed. In his perception, these three minutes felt as long as three days.

Now, it was finally over.

After resting for a while, until the pain completely disappeared, Seimei finally had the mood to check the results of this evolution.

Jumping off the boulder, Seimei flashed to the stream's edge. Facing the clear water, like a mirror, he activated his Sharingan.

He saw that his pupils instantly turned blood red.

A black dot was in the center, and three tomoe were distributed around it at 120-degree angles. It was the most ordinary three-tomoe Sharingan.

And this was just the beginning.

With a thought, Seimei continued to activate the Sharingan's transformation.

The next moment, the three tomoe in his pupils rapidly elongated, and the tip of each tomoe coincided with the black dot in the center.

Finally, this made the black dot enlarge, almost occupying one-third of the pupil's area.

Then, the elongated tails of the three tomoe also split into two, becoming six curved black lines, connecting to the central black dot at 60-degree angles.

Thus, overall, his Sharingan looked like a simple drawing of a black sun, appearing exceptionally mysterious.

Undoubtedly, this was his Mangekyo Sharingan.

His Sharingan had successfully evolved!

At this moment, Seimei only felt that his eyes were incredibly powerful, as if with a single thought, he could unleash infinite power.

However, Seimei knew that this was just an illusion caused by the surge in his mental power.

Of course, even so, his strength had greatly increased compared to before.

Not to mention anything else, just this surge in mental power and the newly awakened Mangekyo were enough to elevate his genjutsu level by several notches.

Moreover...

After awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan, he should also have two unique dojutsu abilities.

(End of this chapter)